- Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Chinese New Year, Fortune-tellers
After spending an eventful day at the fair held on New Year's Eve, Mei Li arrives home just in time to greet the Kitchen God.
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Warm, earnest, effortless and resolved.
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
- effortlessdemanding
- resolvedopen-ended
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Thomas Handforth
- First published
- 1961
- Pages
- 48
- Publisher
- Zhongguo Hua qiao chu ban she, Doubleday, World's Work
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9780385076395
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Thomas Scofield Handforth (September 16, 1897 – October 19, 1948) was an American artist and etcher. He wrote and illustrated the children's picture book Mei Li based on personal experience in China and won the 1939 Caldecott Medal for illustration. He was born in Tacoma, Washington, and studied art at the University of Washington. During World War I, he served in France with the anatomical unit in the Army's Sanitary Corps. He later studied art at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in France. He lived in various locations, such as Paris, India, North Africa, Mexico, and China.
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